Editor’s Note by Kristina Marie Darling
Editorial Features
“It made me feel less alone: A Conversation with Melody S. Gee on We Carry Smoke and Paper” — curated by Wendy Chen
“What we have is our word”: A conversation with Éric Morales-Franceschini on Syndrome — curated by Wendy Chen
“Trusting a curiosity: A Conversation with John Reed About George Orwell, History, & Artistic Risk” — curated by Kristina Marie Darling
Small Press Showcase: The Writers of Lily Poetry Review Books — Valerie Duff, Suzanne Mercury, Jules Jacob, Shari Caplan, Mary Lou Buschi, Richard Hoffman, Amanda Shaw & Publisher Eileen Cleary — curated by Kristina Marie Darling
“It’s all word games and endlessly entertaining”: A Conversation with Spanish Translator Lupita Eyde-Tucker — curated by Naoko Fujimoto
“The Past Which Is Never Really the Past: A Conversation January Gill O’Neil” — curated by Lisa Olstein
“A Collective Bodily Knowing: A Conversation with Sasha Steensen” — curated by Lisa Olstein
“To Be the Mind in Motion Across the Idea: A Conversation with Sasha West” — curated by Lisa Olstein
“The ‘I” Holds as a Gathering Place: A Conversation with Dawn Lundy Martin” — curated by Lisa Olstein
“I am a gulmohar tree, in full bloom: A Conversation with Celina Baljeet Basra about Happy”— curated by Tiffany Troy
“I don’t hesitate to slurp loudly: A Conversation with Kyle Liang about Good Son”— curated by Tiffany Troy
“A burnished gold globe falling in orbit: A Conversation with Joan Baranow about Reading Szymborska in a Time of Plague”— curated by Tiffany Troy
“What part do I play today? A Conversation with Carolyn Hembree about For Today”— curated by Tiffany Troy
“To Wake Up Images and Call Them Fish Hawks: A Conversation with Stephen Massimilla about Frank Dark”— curated by Tiffany Troy
“The world is only upside down, when we think–we are atop the sky: A Conversation with Kalpna Singh-Chitnis about Trespassing My Ancestral Lands”— Curated by Tiffany Troy
“To Attend to the Sacred in Those I Love: A Conversation with Brian Turner about The Wild Delight of Wild Things, The Dead Peasant’s Handbook, and The Goodbye World Poem”— Curated by Tiffany Troy
“Against luminous infinity: A Conversation with Tatiana Johnson-Boria about Nocturne in Joy”— Curated by Tiffany Troy
“Sometimes it sings a silent, canary-throated song: A Conversation with L.S. McKee about Creature, Writing, Heart, Machine“— curated by Tiffany Troy
“The History Remains Unquiet: A Conversation with Brandon Shimoda about The Afterlife is Letting Go”— curated by Tiffany Troy
“Some shape in yr eye: A Conversation with Mandy Gutmann-Gonzalez about A/An” — curated by Tiffany Troy
“But not without a heart: A Conversation with Rebecca Lindenberg about Our Splendid Failure to Do the Impossible”— curated by Tiffany Troy
“A Gaze Toward Displacement: A Conversation with V. Penelope Pelizzon” — curated by Esteban Rodriguez
“At the End of This Ravishing World: A Conversation with Nina Schuyler” — curated by Esteban Rodriguez
Editors’ Selections in Poetry & Prose
Cassandra Atherton — A Portfolio of Prose Poetry
Curated & introduced by Kristina Marie Darling
Kate Bolton Bonnici — “A WORLD of Wonders”
Curated & introduced by Kristina Marie Darling
Roxana Crisólogo — from Beauty — translated by Kim Jensen and Judith Santopietro
Curated & introduced by Abigail Ardelle Zammit
Joseph Fasano — The Healers, Love is Always a Radical,Van Gogh’s Last Letter, When My Child Asks About the News
Curated & introduced by Tiffany Troy
Debora Kuan — A Portfolio of Prose Poetry
Curated & introduced by Henk Rossouw
Nicholas Skaldetvind — “I Ask My Son’s Ghost to Take Me With Him”
Curated & Introduced by Kristina Marie Darling
Editor’s Selections in Visual Art
Each artist selected & introduced by Mary Kathryn Jablonski
Collaborative & Cross-Disciplinary Texts
Zach Bartles — A Portfolio of Visual Poetry
Poetry
Sophia Chong — A Portfolio of Poetry
Jo Ann Clark — “Myths of Drowning”
Bill Hollands — “Pete Davidson,” “Religion,” & “Letter”
Romana Iorga — “Late Poem: A Cento” & “Fog Has the Shape of Those We Loved”
Nancy Kuhl — “Written in Code” & “Signs & Omens”
Susan Lewis — A Portfolio of Poetry
Alexander Long — “Sunday Morning Meeting”
Aaron Lopatin — “The day was a ringworm, my arm was a knot”
Angie Macri — “Arches and Threads”
Margaret Malochleb — “Dear E: A Series of Epistles”
David Moolten — “The Other Orpheuses” & “Shirtwaist”
Carolyn Orosz — “Acts 9:16” & “Fever Dream”
Greg Rappleye — A Portfolio of Poetry
Katharine Rauk — “Taking Apart the Radio,” “The Cloud of Unknowing,” & “Breaking Ground”
Bill Rector — A Portfolio of Prose Poetry
Seth Rosenbloom — “I Always Wanted to Be Good at Taking Pictures” & “Incandescent”
Victoria Spaulding — “The Migration of the Animals” & “Amarillo Ramp”
Garrett Stack — “Waiting Room” & “A Note for Our Unconceived Child”
Cutter Streeby — “Portrait of Time as a Christian Woman”
Angela Voras-Hills — A Portfolio of Poetry
Kathleen Winter — “Fan Fiction: The Last Days of Disco” & “Fan Fiction: The Daughters of Britannia”
Prose
Philip Arnold — “A Home, in the Age of Forms”
Melissa Pritchard — “Haunted by Florence Nightingale”
Will Gibbons — “Between Stimulus and Response: On Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and Space”
T.B. Grennan — “This Used to Be a City”
Angela Townsend — “Mono and Stereo”
Literature in Translation
Georg Amsel — “Our Lady, the Poet” — translated by Lake Angela
Alba de Céspedes — “Serenity” — translated by Tamara Lee
Mirabai — Five Poems — Translated by Chloe Martinez
Muyaka bin Haji — Untitled — translated by Alex de Voogt
Petrarch — Sonnets 2, 9, 12, 26, and 109 from Rerum vulgarium fragmenta — translated by Lee Bahan
Mikhail Zakharov – from But your wives and children from the novel Doramaroman— translated by Nathan Jeffers
A Celebration of Literary Criticism
Three Critical Perspectives on Membery by Preeti Kaur Rajpal: KB Kinkel, Gus Jarvis, & Leslie Friedman
Two Critical Perspectives on Ruth Danon’s Turn Up the Heat: Leonard Temme & Robert Dunsdon
Karin Falcone on the Poetics of Time and Temperature in New Works by Maureen Owen and Ruth Danon
Shannon Vare Christine on Adam in the Garden by A.E. Hines
Naya Clark on the Poetry of Toby Goostree
Robert Dunsdon on Habitats by Katharine Whitcomb
KB Kinkel on Therapon by Bruce Bond & Dan Beachy-Quick
Zainab Omaki on Kingdom of Glass and Seed by Jules Jacob
Aline Soules on Aquamarine by Valerie Duff